Hmmm.. So Lil Waynes "No Ceilings" came out yesterday..Personally, I have respect for Wayne after watching Behind the Music, but that doesn't mean I'm feeling his music. This one is definitely not going on my ipod. Wayne the "bubble gum pop hip hop King" has done it again! Made a dud in my books. I don't who really listens to music anymore. If you love hip hop why are you saying he's the best rapper alive?? Are y'all even livin out there? I'm talking about the jams that you could cut back in the day and make a sample now and throw DOPE eccentric lyrics on it and make it a hot one. The jams Mom and Pop chilled to. Listen to real lyrics from Lupe, Joe budden, Royce Da five 9, Crooked I, Slaughterhouse, Mos def(early days), Talib. Consequence, Jay-z. Thats a few, but tell me that you can't just sit there and vibe to there lyrics and just coast! Its impossible not to vibe to them. But as far as Wayne don't try and be a follower and think you the "Mixtape Messiah" haha come dude! Once wore blue, but swear he was dipped in red all his life. Sorry its all fake raps! Loyalty plays a huge part in this. If you're gonna resurrect hip hop, do it in a Def Jam way, not a "Souljah Boy" way. You aint rapping, you just dancing. Theres a reason why you threw out that rhyme book, and bc you wanted to see who you can brainwash, and hey you did it.. in your words "CONGRADULATIONS"! Every follower bought you out 10x more bc you acted like a gremlin who yelled on the track while reading a elementary school book and said it was your book of rhymes! Ppl may think I'm rambling on. But I'm being real, I dont feel this music that is whats played 20 times in a set on the radio, thats tired music put that in the box thats marked "Halls and Oats". Style is played out along time ago. If you really want to give back hip hop. Go back to topic and not jibberish. Too many ppl are trying to relate to a life that you didn't even live till you got in the lime light! And you wasn't even loyal! You walked out on your mentor who taughtt you how to rhyme! Then said the person that didn't want you that he's your mentor! Sounds like Kanye when he left Dame! Whats going on. Im so glad Drake don't flop because I like that dude. and Nicki Minaj she's a hot prospect, dont hold no ones contract like Jay! Peace!
Opinions - to me, that's what we have here. You're opinion & I'm never going to discredit that. However, "No Ceilings" in my opinion.. is a legit mixtape.
ReplyDeleteCall me a punch line girl, but it's track after track that I can listen to and enjoy without pressing fast fwd. Maybe he isn't talking about his story anymore, but why does he need to? Idk, maybe it's just the Jeezy fan in me but I think you need to be loyal to whatever it is that you are doing now.. Jeezy came out with TM101 when he was all about trapping.. The Inspiration was about how he viewed the world and by the time The Recession came out, he was at the point in his career when he felt he could affect the world.
Not all rappers are created equally, and not every person who was put on this earth is here to serve the same purpose. I'm not all about the artists you mentioned in your blog, but I appreciate Weezy because to the rest of America (in the beginning & to those who don't appreciate him) he's looked at as an ignorant thug, regardless of his "honest" past. However, if you really listen to what he says, he sheds light on a lot of crazy things that people who have graduate degrees couldn't. It's about vocabulary & rhymes. Regardless of how he got there, who he wasn't loyal to and whoever he might have crossed in his path.. if you don't recognize him as a lyrical genius, I think your wrong.
Maybe he doesn't paint vivid pictures to make you contemplate why you live life, or make you think about the turmoil going on around America, but he certainly will make you play back his song and say.. "what, did he just connect that?" & how did he do it so simplistically?
I guess you can call him Hip Pop, whatever it is you wish.. but I don't think that he crossed over as much as he brought outsiders in to the genre. Like I said, just my opinion :)